Bøger af Goldeen Ogawa

An Elder Dragon has returned to Kyreland-the first to be seen in thousands of years-and Bouragner Felpz is called in to mediate; a young man falls victim to not one, but three grotesque fates; upon being cast out of Heaven, Lucifer makes a surprising new friend; and in Las Vegas, Jill Hamilton is on a mission to conduct her very own interview with a famous vampire rock star-but will she live to tell about it? A new take on Little Red Riding Hood suggests the wolf is not the true monster; and in the final story, Professor Odd must convince two warring species to work together-before they are destroyed by a cataclysmic event. These are the stories of Apsis Fiction: Aphelion 2014, the third issue of Goldeen Ogawa's semi-annual anthology of fantasy and science fiction. Aphelion 2014 includes: "Griffin's Blood" (Bouragner Felpz, Volume II, #4) "The Three Fates of Talias Minn" (Bouragner Felpz, Volume II, #5) "The Trickster and the Devil" (Standalone) "Sex, Blood and Rock 'n' Roll" (Driving Arcana #4) "How Riding Got Her Red Hood" (Standalone) "The Dragons of Geda" (Professor Odd # 5)

In the far future, a team of genetically modified dogs struggle to reach a mysterious objective, but Professor Odd suspects a sinister goal behind their mission. A wolf learns the value of good luck, while the magician Bouragner Felpz attempts to solve a violent murder and recover a missing necklace-which has somehow wound up on the bottom of the sea. And in modern-day Kansas, Jill and company find themselves helping an eccentric priest when the demon terrorizing a small town proves difficult to exorcise. These are the stories of Apsis Fiction: Aphelion 2015, the fifth issue of Goldeen Ogawa's semi-annual anthology of fantasy and science fiction. Aphelion 2015 includes: "The Dogs of Canary Island" (Professor Odd #7) "The Wolf and the Rabbit" (Standalone) "The Moonfoot Problem" (Bouragner Felpz, Volume II, #8) "The Case of Countess Baronia" (Bouragner Felpz, Volume II, #9) "Missionary Man" (Driving Arcana #6)

What do you do when the supernatural world crashes, horribly and violently, into yours? Well, if you're Jill Hamilton, you hire yourself a couple of hard-bitten, demon-hunting, monster-killing bodyguards, get in your dead boyfriend's giant truck, and you go out and study it. So begins the saga of Driving Arcana, the tale of three women on a mission to catch unicorns, talk to vampires, and understand the impossible-and maybe kill some monsters on the way-for science, justice, and the fight against evil. Driving Arcana: Rotation One introduces us to former grad student Jill Hamilton and her bodyguards-the stoic, sword-wielding, motorcycle-riding Clara Nordstern and the tough-as-nails, gun-toting Selene Shields-as they encounter a bloody attack of rabid chimeras, a herd of unicorns bent on revenge, and a sinister invasion from beyond the borders of our world. The first rotation of Driving Arcana, Wheel One, it includes: 1. The Sword and the Shield 2. Highway Unicorns 3. Shadows in the Valley of Death

Professor Odd and her rag-tag companions must rescue the people of a dying world; a woman plays a dangerous game with an old god; a young scientist discovers that magic and monsters are more than real, and enlists the aid of two warlike hunters to help her study them; finally, a magician long thought gone makes his timely and dramatic reappearance. These are the stories of Apsis Fiction: Mesohelion 2013, the first issue of Goldeen Ogawa's semi-annual anthology of fantasy and science fiction. Mesohelion 2013 includes: "The Promethean Predicament" (Professor Odd #3) "The Woman Who Tricked the God of Ruin" (Standalone) "The Sword and the Shield" (Driving Arcana #1) "Highway Unicorns" (Driving Arcana #2) "The Witch and the Dragon" (Standalone) "The Magician Returns" (Bouragner Felpz, Volume II #1)

A young woman's fiancé disappears, and a man made of stone takes his place; Bouragner Felpz receives a distress call from what appears to be a disembodied hand. In Utah, a boy's sudden disappearance leads Jill Hamilton to investigate several cases of unexplainable phenomena; two children discover a magical portal and go exploring across the universe; and in the season finale of Professor Odd, Elo and Alister find themselves trapped in the most dangerous universe yet: the Professor's own homeworld! These are the stories of Apsis Fiction: Perihelion 2015, the fourth issue of Goldeen Ogawa's semi-annual anthology of fantasy and science fiction. Perihelion 2015 includes: "The Stone Man" (Bouragner Felpz, Volume II, #6) "The Withered Hand" (Bouragner Felpz, Volume II, #7) "God, or Aliens" (Driving Arcana #5) "Amar and Desta's Big Day Out" (Standalone) "The Monster's Daughter" (Professor Odd #6)

Meet Alister Bane, former college student. He is a sensible, conventional, practical young man. Not at all the sort of person you'd expect to find clambering around, in the rain, on a huge stone lightning bolt hanging in the sky. Yet here he is. Since being expelled from his home world, Alister has been traveling between universes with the flamboyant and inquisitive Professor Odd, Dave, a green tentacle monster, and Elo, a highly intelligent mutant wolf. Now, however, he has been separated from his friends and is forced to navigate an "unconventional" universe teetering on the brink of destruction. Impossible stone formations aside, there is also the problem of the sinister hooded natives, and why they have got a living man chained to a rock... "The Promethean Predicament" is the third in a series of novellas chronicling the fantastic travels of Professor Odd and her wayward companions.

A train in outer space is hijacked. Luckily, Professor Odd is on board. Unluckily, the hijackers know her of old and the situation quickly becomes dire. Jill, Selene and Clara come to the aid of a grieving woman haunted by ghosts, and Bouragner Felpz manages to coax Corianne out of retirement one last time in order to find a lost university student and solve a mystery that has lain dormant for forty years.These are the stories of Apsis Fiction: Mesohelion 2018, the tenth and final issue of Goldeen Ogawa's semiannual anthology of fantasy and science fiction.Mesohelion 2018 includes: "Cerberus Retired" Parts 1 and 2 (Professor Odd #12)"Half Lives" (Driving Arcana #12)"The Peculiar Case of Professor Odd" (Bouragner Felpz, Volume III #3

University student Alister Bane is a neat, tidy, ordinary person living a neat, tidy, ordinary life. But all this changes when the flamboyant, other-worldly, and extraordinary Professor Odd waltzes into class and turns his world inside out. Suddenly Alister is thrown into the middle of a cat-and-mouse game between the Professor and alien tentacle monster, while a shadowy group of scientists tries to capture them all. Can Alister convince them that he is only a hapless bystander? Can life ever return to normal? One thing is for certain: things are going to get a little bit odd. "The False Student" was first published electronically in 2011. It is the first in a series of novellas chronicling the adventures of Professor Odd and her wayward companions.

A concerned suitor comes to Felpz for advice-with surprising results; Death makes an unlikely friend; Alister Bane finds himself transported to twentieth century Oxford-or is it really Oxford? How the Norse queen of the underworld got her husbands; an ancient ghost returns to a remote hamlet and causes trouble; just what the Serpent was doing in the Garden of Eden is explained; and in the final story, Selene Shields must shepherd a handful of uncooperative civilians out of Death Valley, while the balance of day and night is thrown completely out of whack. These are the stories of Apsis Fiction: Perihelion 2014, the second issue of Goldeen Ogawa's semi-annual anthology of fantasy and science fiction. Perihelion 2014 includes: "A Horse in the Night" (Bouragner Felpz, Volume II, #2) "Death and the Cat" (Standalone) "The Elder Machine" (Professor Odd #4) "The Husbands of Hel" (Standalone) "The Ghost of Castle Hill" (Bouragner Felpz, Volume II #2) "How Eve Left the Garden" (Standalone) "Shadows in the Valley of Death" (Driving Arcana #3)

Alister Bane is an ordinary, average, everyday college student who has just embarked on an adventure of extraordinary proportions. Compelled to flee his home universe by circumstances beyond his control, he finds himself in the company of the insatiably curious Professor Odd, a tentacle monster named Dave, and a talking dog. Together they travel the multiverse in the Professor's trans-dimensional ship, the Oddity, with Alister along for the ride. In "The Slowly Dying Planet" the Professor's quest for pizza takes them to the strange world of Niatano, where the sun is red, the people are feathered dinosaurs, and everyone speaks Italian. Oh, and they are in danger of being killed by robots from outer space. No one is getting any pizza until that is sorted out... "The Slowly Dying Planet" was first published electronically in 2011. It is the second in a series of novellas chronicling the travels of Professor Odd and her wayward companions.

Jill Hamilton would call herself an ordinary person. Certainly in comparison to the sharpshooting, monster-savvy Selene Shields and the six-and-a-half-foot tall, sword-wielding Clara Nordstern. But Selene and Clara would say that ordinary people, on discovering that the heavy-metal rock star performing in Las Vegas is a vampire, would not want to get an impression of his teeth. Which is exactly what Jill Hamilton wants to do. Not content to simply fight the supernatural forces of evil, Jill Hamilton is also set on understanding them-and if that means interviewing a vampire, hunting angels, or exorcising demons, then so be it! Driving Arcana: Rotation Two follows the saga of two women in a big red truck-and one on an overpowered motorcycle-as they investigate a murder in the sewers of Las Vegas, the mysterious disappearance of a Utah boy, and help a charming, lapsed minister exorcise a particularly determined demon. It includes the fourth, fifth and six episodes in Driving Arcana, Wheel One: 4. Sex, Blood and Rock 'N' Roll 5. God, or Aliens 6. Missionary Man

"Lucena Clarian Ashmoor has never hatched a feathered serpent from an egg. She has never befriended a sombulus - a monster that looks like a giant spider, eats darkness, and likes reading books. She has never ridden a magic horse. She has spent all her life with relatives who would prefer she were elsewhere, and so sent her away to the nastiest school imaginable. There she has been bullied, and told so many times that she was dumb and fat and useless that she almost came to believe it. She has never been popular, and never done anything remotely heroic.All this changes the night a vampire attacks her school and Lucena is tumbled into a world wider, darker, more magical and more mysterious than any she could have imagined. Here she will find the forgotten egg, meet the shade-eating spider, ride the black mare with coal-fire eyes, fight vampires, dance with fairies, and find - in time - that she might be a hero after all"--

Although Jill Hamilton's primary interest is the research and documentation of supernatural phenomena, scientific progress is not immune to human drama, and when Clara Nordstern's estranged brother goes missing, she and Selene put the main mission on hold to help her find him. And their next case comes to them because Selene decides to investigate the murder of a young girl in a small Missouri town-a town with a history of mysterious disappearances. But what they discover turns out to be far more than anyone expected-and exactly what Jill has been looking for. Because when it comes to proving the unbelievable, sometimes you need the help of witches, undead warriors, and ancient gods. Driving Arcana: Rotation Three continues the saga of Jill, Clara and Selene as they travel the country studying gods, demons, ghouls, and fighting some truly monstrous humans. It includes the final three episodes of Driving Arcana, Wheel One: 7. Sons of Fire 8. Dying to Live 9. By Moon and Star

Mischief and mayhem follow Grimbald, the capricious Queen of Dreams, as she dances through a short anecdote concerning the devil and fiddling, a remarkable episode in the life of the magician Bouragner Felpz, and a short song of her own. Felpz then delves into his past to recount his adventure with a unique and magnificent beast, while in Driving Arcana, Clara must come to the rescue of her estranged brother. Finally, Professor Odd and company face perhaps their greatest challenge yet: saving two universes at once! These are the stories of Apsis Fiction: Perihelion 2016, the sixth issue of Goldeen Ogawa's semi-annual anthology of fantasy and science fiction. Perihelion 2016 includes: "Violin Lessons for the Prince of Hell" (Standalone) "The Goblin's Fiddle" (Bouragner Felpz, Volume II, #10) "The Devil His Fiddle" (Standalone) "The Silver Chimera" (Bouragner Felpz, Volume II, #11) "Sons of Fire" (Driving Arcana #7) "Chronostrophe" (Professor Odd #8)

Twenty long years have passed for Corianne Birch since the disappearance of her friend and guardian, Bouragner Felpz. In that time she has married and divorced a husband, and born and raised a daughter. No longer the spritely, opinionated teenager who once trailed-if sometimes reluctantly-upon the purple coattails of that famous magician, she has matured into a staid, if no less opinionated, woman. So when a capricious fairy makes his home in a nearby park and begins enchanting the populace, and old friends from her adventuring years reappear, she is more than ready to re-enter the world of wonder, danger, and magic that once dominated her youth. Yet for all the excitement the fairy brings, he is but the harbinger of an even more magnificent event: the return of Bouragner Felpz himself! This second volume of The Adventures of Bouragner Felpz collects twelve stories of dazzling magic and haunting wonder, as Corianne Birch returns to the biographical tales of her exceptional friend with all the wit, charm and vivacity that her teenage self ever had. Spanning almost forty years, this volume contains everything from haunted hills to legendary dragons, a rare glimpse into Felpz's early days, and an exclusive introduction by the noted dracologist (and daughter of the narrator), Milain Clifford Birch.

An intercepted message leads Professor Odd and company to a remote research facility, which has become the first target of an old enemy. In Driving Arcana, what appears to be a simple trap laid by mutant cannibals turns out to be a catastrophe of biblical proportions. And Bouragner Felpz undertakes to solve a gruesome murder with a prophetic warning: that he will follow the thread to its bitter end, and the police might not appreciate the tangle he reveals. These are the stories of Apsis Fiction: Aphelion 2017, the ninth issue of Goldeen Ogawa's semiannual anthology of fantasy and science fiction. Aphelion 2017 includes: "Davebot" (Professor Odd #11) "Out of Space" (Driving Arcana #11) "The Hand of Rishké" (Bouragner Felpz, Volume III #2)

Asynchronous time travel is a tricky thing. Some universes are flexible enough to maintain various timelines without collapsing into paradoxical situations. Others get around the problem by not allowing it to happen at all. But when Professor Odd and her crew visit one of these "temporally rigid" worlds they discover someone has been messing about in both the past and the future. What began as a piece of cake turned inexplicably to pie turns out to be a tremor from a catastrophe that occurred outside of conventional time-sending the universe into spiral of self-destruction. Tumbled together with a mysterious boy and his time-traveling blue horse, Odd, Alister, Elo and Dave find themselves on an adventure across the eons to the far distant future. And to avert the impending destruction of the universe they must step outside time and space altogether. Luckily, Professor Odd has just the thing for that... "Chronostrophe" is the eighth episode in the serial adventures of Professor Odd, multi-versal traveler extraordinaire, and her cohort: Elo the mutant wolf, Alister the misplaced university student, and Dave, the bright green tentacle creature.

Arms Division Ranger Omu Akit, a steadfast dog, would never question a mission. Not when thrown onto a deserted island with only a nervous Science Division Tech to lead them to the secret objective. Not even when their team Alpha is injured and he must take command of the disparate team of dogs-including the nervous Tech and a Medic with an agenda of her own. Then an honest-to-human, mind-reading wolf appears on the scene, along with a not-a-human asking questions that reveal a conspiracy that shakes the foundations of canine society. Ranger Omu always knew it was better not to ask questions. Too late for that now. "The Dogs of Canary Island," the seventh installment in the Professor Odd series, follows the adventures of the universe-hopping Professor and her companions Alister, Elo and Dave. And in this case, seven cybernetically enhanced, anthropomorphic dogs.

It's not always a life-or-death adventure with Professor Odd. Sometimes it's dinner and a show-with a story of life-or-death adventure to go along with it, of course. A bullied schoolboy finds an ancient spirit in an enchanted tomb, with surprising and satisfying results. Driving Arcana launches into its second Wheel with Jill and company investigating the appearance of a Green Man. And in the first novella of Bouragner Felpz, the titular magician must untangle a complex and sinister plot involving an heiress, a foreign wizard, a murdered magician, and a lot of very strange wolves. These are the stories of Apsis Fiction: Perihelion 2017, the eighth issue of Goldeen Ogawa's semiannual anthology of fantasy and science fiction. Perihelion 2017 includes: "The Thousand Songs" (Professor Odd #10) "Abandon All..." (Standalone) "The Earth it Weeps" (Driving Arcana #10) "The Wolves of Riddlemoor" (Bouragner Felpz, Volume III #1)

A casual nebula-viewing turns into a critical rescue mission when Professor Odd and her companions happen upon a wayward spaceship lost in an unfriendly universe; Corianne comes to the aid of an old friend only to discover a pathway into a hidden world-a world that harbors a terrifying monster; and the first wheel of Driving Arcana comes full circle as Jill, Clara and Selene battle a monstrous tree and an all-too-human enemy-only to trigger a phenomenon of world-shattering proportions. These are the stories of Apsis Fiction: Aphelion 2016, the seventh issue of Goldeen Ogawa's semi-annual anthology of fantasy and science fiction. Aphelion 2016 includes: "Star Walkers" (Professor Odd #9) "The Hidden Road" (Bouragner Felpz, Volume II, #12) "Dying to Live" (Driving Arcana #8) "By Moon and Star" (Driving Arcana #9)

Corianne Birch has come out of retirement to prove once again that no hand is as adept as hers at dramatizing the adventures of Bouragner Felpz. Although when one's subject is an immortal magician whose adventures involve giant eagles and magical wolves, arcane murders, dead gods, and otherworldly visitors, there is less need for dramatization and more for a steady, clear voice full of wit and humor-which Birch provides with assured skill. All who despaired of ever reading more tales of Felpz at the conclusion of Volume II must rejoice at this third installment, which presents three scintillating short novels published together for the first time. It also includes the special addition of an introduction written by Felpz himself, and a never-before-seen short story from a surprising new perspective.

In a universe much like our own, Professor Alister Bane lives a quiet life as an archeologist at Oxford University. But when a nearby excavation triggers a psychotic episode in one of his colleagues, Professor Bane finds himself tumbling down a rabbit hole of strange phenomena and frightening possibilities. Having to contend with a slew of disappearing interns and his own terrifying hallucinations, Alister Bane finds his mind-and his whole world-unraveling even as he searches for a solution. It all comes down to half-forgotten memories, a madman's allusion to the thing with "terrible arms" and a nightmare of being trapped in a cold, dark place. But when he finds the answer, it is something beyond even his wildest dreams. "The Elder Machine" is the fourth installment in Goldeen Ogawa's sci-fi novella series chronicling the adventures of Professor Odd-and in this case, Professor Bane as well.

What do you do when the supernatural world crashes-suddenly, violently, devastatingly-into yours? If you are Jill Hamilton, you drop out of UC Santa Cruz, use your inherited savings to hire a couple monster hunters as bodyguards, get in your dead boyfriend's truck, and you go out and study it. Of course. Even if your bodyguards tell you some things are better left un-studied. Even if unicorns are real and bloodthirsty. Even if summoning old, forgotten gods has detrimental effects on the state of reality. Because beyond killing monsters and helping people, Jill Hamilton wants to understand why the world she thought she knew is actually so much deeper, darker, and downright magical than it has any right to be.Welcome to the world of Driving Arcana, where even the painfully boring and mundane aspects of everyday life are underlaid by a subtle current of inexplicable magic, and three women are on a mission to find out how it all works. Even if two of them would really rather not.Wheel 2 of Driving Arcana, Paving the Road to Hell follows Wheel 1, By Moon and Star. It collects all the stories from Rotations Four, Five and Six, and adds "The Five Bodies of Tamerlain Pierce" at the end, which serves as a link between this Wheel and the next.